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Europe's space chief says cooperation with Russia will continue, but experts aren't so sure

Business with Russia continues as usual amid the escalating situation in Ukraine, the European Space Agency's (ESA) chief said on Friday (Feb. 25). But it's unclear if the partnership can survive Russia's recent aggression, experts say.

SpaceX launching 50 Starlink satellites, landing rocket today: Watch it live

A two-stage Falcon 9 rocket topped with 50 Starlink internet spacecraft is scheduled to launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California today at 12:12 p.m. EST (1712 GMT; 9:12 a.m. local California time). You can watch live here at Space.com courtesy ...

NASA's daring Parker Solar Probe spacecraft zips past the sun again today

The exact time of the closest approach, known as perihelion, will be 10:36 a.m. EST (1536 GMT), according to a spokesperson at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, which oversees the mission.

Fifty more Starlink satellites ready for launch Friday

Spaceflight Now

Spaceflight Now

SpaceX will launch another 50 Starlink internet satellites Friday from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, continuing what's expected to be a cadence of nearly one Falcon 9 launch per month this year at the West Coast spaceport.

Major James Webb Space Telescope project will map half a million early galaxies

It's been nearly 350 years since Sir Issac Newton wrote, "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants," but the sentiment certainly holds true today. Newton's wisdom is exemplified by a grand project called the Cosmic Evolution ...

Russian space program chief says US sanctions could 'destroy' International Space Station partnership

"Do you want to destroy our cooperation on the ISS?" read one of the tweets from Roscosmos Director-General Dimitry Rogozin, which was translated by Rob Mitchell for Ars Technica senior space editor Eric Berger, who shared Mitchell's translation on Twitter ...

NASA rules out April for Artemis I launch, could target May

NASA mission managers updated Artemis I progress ahead of the March rollout of the massive Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft to Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39-B for what the agency calls a wet dress rehearsal.

Largest human family tree ever created retraces the history of our species

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Livescience.com

A new, enormous family tree for all of humanity attempts to summarize how all humans alive today relate both to one another and to our ancient ancestors. To build this family tree, or genealogy, researchers sifted through thousands of genome sequences ...

New map of the night sky reveals 4.4 million galaxies and other space objects

CNN

CNN

A composite radio (red) and infrared (white) image depicts the Coma cluster, which is over 300 million light-years from Earth and consists of over 1,000 individual galaxies. The radio image shows radiation from highly energetic particles that pervade the ...

New simulations refine axion mass, refocusing dark matter search

Physicists searching—unsuccessfully—for today's most favored candidate for dark matter, the axion, have been looking in the wrong place, according to a new supercomputer simulation of how axions were produced shortly after the Big Bang 13.6 billion ...